Most popular with judges/immune to losing decisions: Saúl Álvarez, Danny García, or Jessie Vargas?

Updated the OP to replace this bit:

...with my fully-fleshed-out description of Vargas' chronic preferential treatment from the judges.

 

Canelo was neither born nor raised in the US.

Vargas actually fought on the Mexican national team in the amateurs (despite having a birthplace in the US)

Danny is the most "American" of them, culturally, and his Spanish is awful. Mine's probably better tbh.

 

Byrd's name pops up thrice - once for excessive generosity Canelo, and twice for Vargas.

 

Let's extrapolate and parse some data from the OP here to help compare their "protected" status...

# of questionably favorable scorecards for each:

CANELO - Twenty-two, over nine bouts. One an outright robbery IMO (Lara) plus one inexcusable card in his favor in a clear loss (CJ Ross' 114-114 versus Mayweather), and, in the consensus view, an inexcusably wide card in his favor in a draw that many people had going the other way (Adalaide Byrd's 118-110 versus Golovkin)

SWIFT - Sixteen, over eight bouts. Three of them outright robberies (Peterson, Herrera, Theophane) plus one inexcusable card in his favor in a clear loss (Kevin Morgan's 115-113 versus Thurman).

RUTHLESS - Twenty, over ten bouts. Two of them outright bad decisions (López should've gotten the nod, Novikov should've gotten at worst a draw) plus three inexcusably close scorecards in clear losses (Dave Moretti's 113-114 versus Pacquiao, and Max DeLuca's 116-112 & Kermit Bayless' 115-113 versus Bradley) and three more that could've been draws (Allakhverdiev, Narh, Omotoso), with him always getting the benefit of the doubt.


All things considered, this contest is a little closer than many of you might've initially assumed, hmm?

 

I'm not sure I understand. None of these guys have been anywhere near as protected as the Latin trio...and I detest Broner.

 

Yeah but Danny and Jessie have been mollycoddled every bit as bad. Really all three are neck and neck IMO, especially when you break it down by numbers like I did a few posts ago.

 

Fair enough. For the record I am one that does believe he lost to Lara, clearly at that, putting me in an embattled minority....and I still think both the other guys are on the same tier with him.